[development] Upload problems in D7

[Bob Hutchinson]

On Saturday 12 June 2010, Randy Fay wrote:
> Hi Bob -
> 
> The first thing to do is to leave the java applet out of the equation. Just
> access your callback URL in a browser. Hit
> http://example.com/my/path/to/callback. Do you get a 404? Then your module
> is not properly implementing that path or you've failed to rebuild the menu
> router after changing the code. First, get the URL to respond to you (by
> either rebuilding the menu router/clearing all caches, or by fixing your
> code) and then try it out with your java applet.

I tried this by grabbing the destination url out of the java applet's param 
and it produced code 200 (success) in apache logs and reached the calback 
function. I have a watchdog in there ATM.
I have been flushing caches after just about every change in code ;-)
I used firefox and I tried the same URL with wget, both succeed.
I also created a test page node with the url in it, that worked too.
The applet remains the same, it never reaches the callback, the paths are 
identical to the D6 version.

The applet uses POST and I do wonder if D7 is rejecting it because it has no 
'record' of a form and sees no form_id....

Anyway thanks for your suggestions, it helped eliminate a few possibilities.

> 
> Good luck,
> -Randy
> 
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Bob Hutchinson 
<hutchlists at midwales.com>wrote:
> > I am upgrading a module from D6 to D7 and have stumbled over a problem
> > with uploading files.
> > 
> > I am using a java applet to collect the filenames and upload them. The
> > applet
> > requires a full URL (eg http://example.com/my/path/to/callback) as it is
> > running on its own so it cannot *know* what FQDN to prepend to a relative
> > path. The apache logs show a 404 file not found error and watchdog also
> > logs
> > the error like so:
> > http://example.com/http://example.com/my/path/to/callback
> > 
> > All this works well in D6 and I have been very careful in the upgrade.
> > The callback never arrives. It looks like D7 assumes or even requires a
> > relative
> > path and is prepending http://example.com/ automatically.
> > 
> > Any pointers would be much appreciated ;-)
> > 
> > TIA
> > --
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> > Bob Hutchinson
> > Midwales dot com
> > -----------------


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